Improvement in pipes and cigar-holders



J.T.CONNOLLY.

PIPE AND CIGAR HOLDER.

LIL-190,286, PatentedMay 1, 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rrron.

JOHN T. ooN oLLY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y..

IMPROVEMENT IN PIPES'AND CIGAR-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,286, dated May 1, 1877; application filed February 5, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN TOWNSEND OoN- .NOLLY, of New York city, N. Y, have invent- -for this object, but none of them have ever become generally used by smokers.

The object of my invention is a contrivance for this purpose which avoids the inconvenience of those hitherto proposed.

7 It is chiefly intended for the cigar-holder, but is also applicable to the ordinary pipe; and consists chiefly in placing a cleansing appliance upon the stem and in the axis thereof, so as not to deviate the smoke in its passage through the stem, or oblige the smoker to draw more strongly than usual. To absorb the nicotine, I make use of a ball of cotton or other spongy material, which I place in the intermediate reservoir, where it is held by a vertical disk pierced with holes. This disk divides the reservoir into two compartments, one of which contains the ball of cotton, while the other receives the purified smoke, leaving it a space sufficiently large to favor its passage by the stem of the pipe. The reservoir opens into two parts, and a filteringdisk is fixed therein by a bayonet or screwed arrangement, or otherwise, which permits its easy removal, and the ball of cotton or other material can be removed when filled with nicotine, and replaced by another.

Theaccompanying drawings will enable my invention to be thoroughly understood.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my improved cigar-holder, provided with the purifying agent. Fig. 2 is a separate view of the filtering-disk. Fig. 3 shows my invention applied to a pipe, and Fig. 4 is a separate view of the filtering-disk.

The same letters represent the same pieces for the cigar-holder and the pipe.

The reservoir, which is preferably of spherholes over its whole surface.

the one with stem of the cigar-holder g, and the other with the amber mouthpiece thereof h. The junction of the-two tubes 0 and g is effected by a screwed part, but the tubes may be very advantageously used in one piece only.

The tubular part 01 is prolonged by a thread ed part, It, upon which is screwed the amber mouth-piece h. The filtering-disk L is .placed vertical-1y near to the point n of connection of the two parts of the reservoir. It isolates the ball of cotton' m placed in the part a. This disk (shown apart at Fig. 2) is pierced with When putting the disk in place, it rests upon a circular shoulder arranged in the interior of reservoir. The disk is thus maintained against the'rim or circular shoulder of the reservoir. It will be remarked, in Fig. 3, that the exit-orifice of the smoke from the reservoir is preceded by a little conical or cylindrical tube, and the object of this prominent little tube is for the purpose of preventing the nicotine juice which may have escaped through the filter from ontering the passage to the month.

With the same object, the edges of the entry-orifice in the reservoir may be made to slightly project therein. This projection of the entry-orifice into the reservoir should be greater with pipes than cigar-holders, because the pipe may assume all sorts of inclined poing the wad of cotton or other material, I may change the position of the filter Z, and, instead of placing it in the medial diameter of the two hemispheres a and b, as shown in Fig. 1, the filter I may be placed on the side nearer the entrance of the tubular part c or d, as will be seen clearly at Fig. 3, which shows my invention applied to a pipe for smoking. For the same purpose, the two filteringdisks may be placed in the interior of the reservoir, near the entrance of the tubular parts 0 and d. This modification leaves all the inner volume of the two hemispheres a and b disposable to receive the wad of cotton.

In the arrangements above described the reservoir is of metal, but it can be made of wood, hardened caoutchouo, shell, horn, or any other material which harmonizes with the other material of which the cigar-holder or pipe-tube may be formed. I do not limit myself to the spherical form of the reservoir a and b, which may assume any other convenient formoval or elongated, for example, Fig. 3.

I do not broadly claim a cigar-holder or pipe, having a smoke-filter arranged between the mouth-piece and tobacco, as such, I am aware, is not new.

Having now described the nature of my I said invention, and in what manner the same In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification before two subscribing witnesses.

J. TOWNSEND OONNOLLY.

Witnesses;

Rom. M. HOOPER, ARMENGAUD, J eune. 

